Carl Schmitt having interpreted the concept of nation resulting from the French Revolution in a nationalistic way, Hannah Arendt is forced to reject this dangerous notion because of its fatal association with the ... [+]

Carl Schmitt having interpreted the concept of nation resulting from the French Revolution in a nationalistic way, Hannah Arendt is forced to reject this dangerous notion because of its fatal association with the national sovereignty of the Nation-State and the potentially racist nationalism which comes from it. For the nationalist potential that the Nation-State has effectively developed over the course of history rests on the fabrication of a national unanimity that allows the oppression of minorities as much as the destruction of the political space. The option of the republican nation having been rejected, the concept of nation can only be in a critical state. [-]